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A Comparison between Conventional and Basket Transvenous Electrodes
Author(s) -
LAGERGREN HANS
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1985.tb05748.x
Subject(s) - medicine , electrode , lead (geology) , surgery , complication , biomedical engineering , chemistry , geomorphology , geology
Three transvenous electrodes, two of a conventional type and one in the shape of a wire basket, were compared. In order to make a valid comparison, the electrodes ivere all attached to the same kind of lead. The conventional large and small surface electrodes showed no difference in early complication rate. The wire basket electrode, however, had significantly fewer early complications than the others. This was true whether the patients underwent a two‐ or a one‐step procedure, and whether the surgery was done by experienced or inexperienced pacemaker surgeons. When inserted by experienced surgeons in a one‐step procedure, the wire basket electrodes had an early complication rate of only 1.2%. Since this unrefined electrode that allows tissue ingrowth for improved anchoring has shown such good results, it is likely that other electrodes that have heen perfected, of a hollow or porous design, will also he advantageous to the patients and show good results.